Quotes about suicide
suicide violence spirit
The private terror of the liberal spirit is invariably suicide, not murder. Norman Mailer
suicide block war
I've always disliked kamikazes, that is, people who commit suicide in order to kill others. Starting with the Japanese ones from World War II. I never considered them Pietro Miccas who torch the powder and go up with the citadel in order to block the arrival of the enemy troops at Torino. I never considered them soldiers. Oriana Fallaci
suicide asking remember
How do you dare to ask me for a solution? It's like asking Seneca for a solution. You remember what he did? He committed suicide! Oriana Fallaci
suicide veteran problem
There is a massive problem with veteran suicides. Eric Bolling
suicide accomplishment weakness
You are certainly wrong to compare suicide ... with great accomplishments, since it cannot be considered as anything but a weakness. After all, it is easier to die than to endure a harrowing life with fortitude. Johann Wolfgang von Goethe
suicide rude needs
You seem to know a lot about it," she said. "And you do subtleties." "Yeah. Like I've always wanted to destroy the Nine Worlds while committing suicide." "Well, there's no need to be rude," protested Sif. Joanne Harris
suicide political president
I'm concerned about the negative aspect of political campaigning in american nation, which is a new phenomenon. When I ran for president against Gerald Ford and later against Ronald Reagan we never referred to each other except as 'my distinguished opponent'. And had we criticised personally our opponent it would have been political suicide, we would have been castigated and condemned for it. Jimmy Carter
suicide war fall
In an all-out nuclear war, more destructive power than in all of World War II would be unleashed every second during the long afternoon it would take for all the missiles and bombs to fall. A World War II every second-more people killed in the first few hours than all the wars of history put together. The survivors, if any, would live in despair amid the poisoned ruins of a civilization that had committed suicide. Jimmy Carter
suicide lonely men
Life's been good to me. Why am I so lonely and bored? I used to wonder why so many rich men commit suicide. I no longer wonder. O. J. Simpson
suicide jesus heaven
Religion kept some of my relatives alive, because it was all they had. If they hadn't had some hope of heaven, some companionship in Jesus, they probably would have committed suicide, their lives were so hellish. Octavia Butler
suicide spiritual commit
If society abolishes poetry it commits spiritual suicide. Octavio Paz
suicide suicidal people
Nothing in my life has ever made me want to commit suicide more than people's reaction to my trying to commit suicide. Emilie Autumn
suicide suicidal men
The obsession with suicide is characteristic of the man who can neither live nor die, and whose attention never swerves from this double impossibility. Emile M. Cioran
suicide world melancholy
The refutation of suicide: is it not inelegant to abandon a world which has so willingly put itself at the service of our melancholy? Emile M. Cioran
suicide aberration normal
By what aberration has suicide, the only truly normal action, become the attribute of the flawed? Emile M. Cioran
suicide suicidal too-late
It is not worth the bother of killing yourself, since you always kill yourself too late. Emile M. Cioran
suicide ideas dies
I live only because it is in my power to die when I choose to: without the idea of suicide, I'd have killed myself right away. Emile M. Cioran
suicide people want
When people come to me saying they want to kill themselves, I tell them, “What’s your rush? You can kill yourself any time you like. So calm down. Suicide is a positive act.” And they do calm down. Emile M. Cioran
suicide book
A book is a suicide postponed. Emile M. Cioran
suicide succeed reason
Only optimists commit suicide, optimists who no longer succeed at being optimists. The others, having no reason to live, why would they have any to die? Emile M. Cioran
suicide spring suicidal
Our excessive tolerance with regard to suicide is due to the fact that, since the state of mind from which it springs is a general one, we cannot condemn it without condemning ourselves; we are too saturated with it not partly to excuse it. Emile Durkheim
suicide negative victim
The term suicide is applied to all cases of death resulting directly or indirectly from a positive or negative act of the victim himself, which he knows will produce this result Emile Durkheim
suicide order hallucinations
Maniacal suicide. —This is due to hallucinations or delirious conceptions. The patient kills himself to escape from an imaginary danger or disgrace, or to obey a mysterious order from on high, etc. Emile Durkheim
suicide sadness people
Melancholy suicide. —This is connected with a general state of extreme depression and exaggerated sadness, causing the patient no longer to realize sanely the bonds which connect him with people and things about him. Pleasures no longer attract; Emile Durkheim
suicide suicidal giving
Each victim of suicide gives his act a personal stamp which expresses his temperament, the special conditions in which he is involved, and which, consequently, cannot be explained by the social and general causes of the phenomenon. Emile Durkheim
suicide self location
While his history of depression is compatible with suicide... and the location and direction of the stab wounds are consistent with self-infliction, several aspects of the circumstances (as they are known at this time) are atypical of suicide and raise the possibility of homicide. Elliott Smith
suicide war differences
There is no moral difference between a Stealth bomber and a suicide bomber. They both kill innocent people for political reasons. Tony Benn
suicide heart bars
That is what chills your spine when you read an account of a suicide: not the frail corpse hanging from the window bars but what happened inside that heart immediately before. Simone de Beauvoir
suicide hate reality
In a way, literature is true than life,' he said to himself. 'On paper, you say exactly and completely what you feel. How easy it is to break things off on paper! You hate, you shout, you kill, you commit suicide; you carry things to the very end. And that's why it's false. But it's damned satisfying. In life, you're constantly denying yourself, and others are always contradicting you. On paper, I make time stand still and I impose my convictions on the whole world; they become the only reality. Simone de Beauvoir
suicide atheist war
I know of no wars started by anyone to impose lack of religion on someone else. We have lethal Sunni v Shia, Catholic against Protestant, but no agnostic suicide bombers attack crowded atheist pubs. Simon Hoggart
suicide running pain
Whether they run a record company or a grocery store, every boss will tell you you're in big trouble if you're borrowing more than you can ever afford to pay back. Delaying the pain for future generations is suicidal. We've got to start getting the deficit down right now, not next year. Simon Cowell
suicide flames diving
Tantalus made a wild grab, but the marshmallow committed suicide, diving into the flames. Rick Riordan
suicide night light
Night was coming on in, borrowing the light. It had started out borrowing just a few cents worth of the light, but now it was borrowing thousands of dollars worth of the light every second. The light would soon be gone, the bank closed, the tellers unemployed, the bank president a suicide. Richard Brautigan